| From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
| Date: | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:13:53 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Kalamazoo, Michigan |
City looks inward for development Lynn Stevens Western Michigan Business Review March 27, 2008 Some 47 percent of the land area of Kalamazoo is not subject to property taxes -- it's occupied by schools, including Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College -- hospitals and churches. So to develop taxable land, the city needs to look within. "In the long haul, we're 25 square miles, we're basically developed, so we have to redevelop from within," said the city's Economic Development Corp. Executive Director Jerome Kisscorni. The city's Brownfield Redevelopment program is very successful, Kisscorni said, pointing to the February announcement that Fabri-Kal Corp. will relocate to the former Mead Paper site on Manchester Road as one example. ... For the entire article, see http://blog.mlive.com/wmbr/2008/03/city_looks_inward_for_developm.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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